AQUARIUS
Your energy is your energy.
What do you want to do with it?
Express yourself in ways that will help, heal, hold
the you that you are becoming.
This is your life!
No one else will live it for you, thank goodness!
So step in, step up, live the life you came to live.

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Hello Aquarius, welcome to your month ahead horoscope for Gemini season, May 20 through June 20, 2021. This is Embodied Astrology and my name is Renee. I'm a somatic movement educator and embodied intuitive as well as an astrologer. And in my practice, I try to blend these practices and perspectives. As you listen, please make the meaning that's meaningful for you and listen through your own intuition. You can take what works and leave the rest and trust that any meaning that you're making, if it's landing for you, you can follow it. I always recommend people listen to the horoscopes for their sun and their rising sign. If you don't know all of your signs, you can get a free chart at embodiedastrology.com in the horoscopes section. 

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Well you may know that Gemini season is bringing eclipses with it, as well as a couple of retrogrades. So we're in for an exciting time. And lucky for you Aquarius, a Gemini is a complimentary sign, it's also an air sign. And the place that it holds in your chart is probably one of the most joyful places in the chart. It is literally a place that resonates with your joy, with your passion, with your excitement, with your creative energy, with your spirit and your vitality. So this is a season for you to focus on all of those things. And because we're working with eclipse energy, and because we're working with retrogrades, including Mercury retrograde in Gemini, this is a time when you are maybe working through some things that are keeping you from joy, excitement, enthusiasm, vitality, and your spirit. And so it might not be easy the whole time, but any labor that you're doing to work through blockages that keep you from experiencing yourself and your self expression in ways that are authentic, you can work through them now. And  that work is valuable work to be doing. Okay, so to begin, I just want to say that throughout the season, you can support yourself by bringing your attention to your heart and to your central axis and really trying to feel your inner body, your central core and meditating on your essence. Okay, who are you, what are you, as a spirit, as a soul? You are part of the everythingness that is universal consciousness that is too big for any of us to understand. In some ways, you don't matter at all right? You have this tiny little life, you're going to come and go in one breath of the universe's constant expansion and contraction. And, yeah, I mean, one life, you know, one life out of some 8 billion on a planet at any given time. Are any of us that important? Not really. But these are our lives. This is your life, and you don't know if you're going to get another one. And you are different than anybody else who has ever lived who will ever live who is alive now. No one has ever had the same collection of experiences and sensations and knowledge and insight and intuition as you. How do you want to live your life? How do you want to show up for it? How do you want to show up for yourself in this life? Tune in with your inner body. Tune in with your spirit, tune in with your heart, and ask yourself to commit to some kind of practice of attunement with your most essential being and this part of your being cannot be described in language. It is not fixed and it is not final. It is timeless. It is Infinite and it is evolving. But something about it is so specific. How do you know who you are? How do all of your cells know that they're your cells, right? Like our bodies are permeable. We're constantly releasing cells, we're constantly taking in influences of our environment. Yet somehow, we continue to resonate with our own energy as long as we're contained within these bodies within the idea of our lives. What do you want to infuse your life with? How do you want to infuse yourself in this life? This is your life. So throughout the season, tune in. Tune in with these huge questions, with these essential questions. And they'll guide you. If you make time for them, they will guide you. 

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The first 10 days of Gemini season from May 20 until June 1st bring in a lot of emphasis and insistence upon change. I think you have a bunch of new ideas. You might have creative ideas, you might have ideas about yourself and who you are and who you're becoming and how you want to express yourself. There may be new friends coming in your way or new experiences with old friends that you want to give time and space for. Collaboration is awesome for you right now. Anytime you can interface with others, there's something magical that happens. There's some kind of interesting cross pollination and exchange and it gets you thinking different kinds of thoughts. Time with yourself is amazing. You can spend time again, giving energy to your essential nature and definitely trying to express yourself from that place, it would be super, super, super helpful. Creative energy right now can really help you think new thoughts and make new connections. And as we go through these first 10 days of Gemini season and things start to shift around, you want to stay current, you want to stay present and in the flow with your life. I know we're all living lives that require us to think beyond the present so you have to do a little bit of that, but as much as possible, day to day, try and really tune in with what is happening right now. And how do you want to be opening up in terms of your energy, your perception, your awareness, right now. 

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On May 23, Saturn will station retrograde in your sign. So Saturn is in Aquarius, basically from the end of last year, of 2020, until 2023. Saturn is one of the rulers of your sign so it's strong here and it is helping you to restructure and recalibrate your identity, your body, your body image, and the ideas that you have about your sense of purposefulness, and ambitions and aspirations here in the world. This is an influence that can help you take more responsibility for yourself and for your own energy. This is a period of time in which you are supported to rework certain aspects of your identity, appearance, body, relationship to body, identity, and appearance. And think about how do you want to hold yourself in this world? What are you carrying? Right? Like you're a vessel, your body is a vessel as you tune into your essential energy and your essential nature. In what way can you honor your essential nature most profoundly, right? Like how do you want to carry yourself? It feels to me like anything that can help you be in more alignment in your body is so helpful right now. So that could be exercises, movement practices, strengthening practices, it could be deep somatic practices, certain kinds of yoga, Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais, dance, like ways of being that would help you move more fluidly and also with more integrity and connection in your own body that can help you be in presence and a brightness, kind of honoring your inner body, and also help you really tune in with what is happening in your inner body. Outside of the somatic world, this is a time to get curious about your identity. Who do you think you are? Who do you think you are? You know, how have you developed those thoughts? What are the conditions? What are the narratives, what are the stories that have been given to you? Saturn is a symbol and astrology often relates to parental figures and particularly to patriarchal or paternal figures and so you might tune in a little bit with the influences of your parents, particularly if one parent was more of the rule making parent. You might also tune in specifically with paternal lineages in your family and the influences of fathers upon the people that have made you and how do you feel their influences coming into you? How do you feel the influence of patriarchy, of a world that is a paternalistic kind of societal construction influencing you and your identity? There's a lot of energy right now to be pushing back against the status quo, to be dismantling all the isms and you can do this and you want to be doing this in yourself, in your own self. And so as Saturn turns retrograde, it will be retrograde until October 11, and this is a great time for you to shed ways of being, ideas about yourself, commitments to certain aspects of your being that aren't helpful for you, that have you stuck in the past, that have you repeating ways of being that you feel as confining, that you know as limiting or destructive. 

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May 26, there is an eclipse in Sagittarius. This is a full moon and lunar eclipse at five degrees of Sagittarius. If you have any natal planets or points around that degree, definitely consider their meaning within this eclipse. Sagittarius for you is another part of the chart that really speaks to good omens, to the possibilities for joy and expansion as your personal joy and expansion spread out and ripple into the world. Here we are connecting with your hopes, your dreams, your wishes for the future, and with the support systems and allies and communities that can help you realize your dreams. This is a great time for you to be thinking about the future and planting seeds for your future. And equally, this is a really important time for you to be letting go of belief systems about your future that are unhelpful for you. A lot of times, I would say probably most of the time, these kinds of belief systems are not totally conscious, they are not completely at the forefront of our minds, or we might not recognize them as being destructive or limiting. So my suggestion is around this full moon, to take some time to honor your inner self, your inner child, your pure joy, your pure essence. That could be meditation, that could be play. If you are into dancing, my feeling is like have a dance party with yourself. Choose three songs that you love to move to, put them on and dance around your space, move your body a little bit, get silly, maybe do this by yourself so that you're not performing, that you're really in your own essence is the idea. If dancing isn't your jam, no problem, do something else that brings you into a playful state where you feel in touch with your heart, with your spirit, with your joy, with your vitality. Then do some kind of meditation and ask yourself, where are the belief systems or the thought structures or the narratives that you embody or have identified with that limit you from this kind of playfulness? That limit you from this space of joy or this space of expansion? Are there ideas that you have that are probably very similar to ideas that many of us have, that as you become an adult, you can't have fun anymore? That you need to be responsible, that you need to do X, Y, or Z? Are there ideas that you can't build a life for yourself that would actually be in alignment with your true spirit, that you have to do something else that's more responsible? Are there value systems that you have, that you place against yourself when you actually are trying to embody your true nature? This would be an amazing time to let go of those ideas. You might write them down and burn them. You might just speak them out loud and say never again and exhale. You might hold a rock in your hand and blow into the rock all of these ideas and then bury the rock in the ground. Intuitively find your own ritual, shed those belief systems that keep you from the future you want for yourself. 

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On May 29, Mercury is stationing retrograde in Gemini. Mercury will be retrograde until June 23. Mercury is the planetary ruler of Gemini and this is a retrograde where we really want to pay attention to all of the classic considerations, communication being at the top of the list. Move slowly. Think about what you're saying before you say it, really consider if it is in your best interest to think it, to speak it out loud, to send the email, to send the text, etc. If you are a parent, this would be a time to really kind of pay attention to your kids, and what they're asking for or what they're needing. There may be adjustments around this time that are important for them. In a similar fashion, as what I'm talking to you about, that you might need to like tune into what are they trying to express? What do they want to live into? What's their joy? What's their essence? Children are programmed by society and there's so many programs running that teach people to forget what they know inherently, and what people know inherently is how to love and where they're interested, you know, what they're interested in. Children are wildly intelligent, they know what they like, doesn't mean that that's the only thing that they're going to do or need to do and of course, as their parent, you probably have to help them develop a lot of other skills as well. But I'm getting a feeling right now that this is a time that you can learn a lot from your kids, if you happen to have them or from your inner child, if you don't have actual children. You know, tune into childlike wisdom, to the kind of instincts towards interests that a lot of kids have, and see how you can help those interests to develop in positive, sustainable, and healthy ways. How can you suspend judgment about what is right and what is wrong, or what's your preference, and really try and see them or see yourself, your inner child, as a complete being that is knowledgeable, that is empowered, that kind of knows what it needs in a really important and again, essential or kind of inner way. During this Mercury retrograde it is also a great time for you to rethink creative projects, to research them. If there are ways that you want to be engaging with self expression or with new hobbies, pastimes, things that you think are fun, different ways that you want to be kind of moving, shaking in the world, this is a time to think about it, to research, to remain with certain ideas and kind of work them out. It's not necessarily a time to like put things out, to put out a finished product of some kind. Although if that's what's happening for you, just go for it, you know and enjoy the process that you're in. But this is a really good time to think about how do you want to be playing in your life? What do you want to be expressing, what do you want to be exploring? Finally, this is an amazing time to be doing some clearing up work around romances and romantic energies. So depending on who you are and what your situation is, think about attraction, think about chemistry, think about playfulness when it comes to you and other people. Think about how you want to be met, in your essential nature and in your spirit and in your heart. Notice where again, there are self limiting belief patterns about what you can or cannot have, if there are habits or ways of being that have you kind of habitually moving out of alignment with yourself and into some other way of being that doesn't lead you into cultivating the kinds of relationships that you want. This is a great time during this Mercury retrograde to call in friends and lovers and new energy that can boost romance in your life. Romance doesn't have to be sexual, there is amazing opportunity in platonic romances you can fall in love with friends, this is such a good time for you to open your heart to attract and explore new connections and also to notice where old connections or old ways of being with friends might want to change. That might mean that they end but it could also mean that adjustments want to be made. 

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The last couple days of May and the first couple days of June we've got a lot of kind of water energy moving in those days. And this is an interesting time for you because I think that you are getting support right now to adjust how you're living in some ways. This could mean that you have more opportunities for different kinds of jobs. It could mean that you have more enthusiasm for self care practices and are working with your schedule in different ways, it might mean that you have opportunities to just change how you're functioning on the day to day. My sense is, is that you want to and will be filling your days with more joy and pleasure, this is definitely what I would love for you and want for you. I do want to kind of like give a little bit of a side note here, that between pretty much the whole month of June, some of you might be experiencing increased cravings for sugar with Venus moving through your sixth house, Venus in cancer, so you might be experiencing increased cravings for sugar. Now, I'm definitely the kind of person that will tell you to eat what you want, when you want it and to try and listen to your body's cravings. But I'm also getting the message here right now that it's important for you to discern what kind of sweetness you actually want. And especially when it comes to refined sugars, and the way that, you know, within our like capitalist mess up of a global society right now, sugar can be a substitute for love, a lot of times and we're fed refined sugary foods, while communities and land and people are really robbed of wealth, you know, of the sweetness of their own connection. Something is coming up for me here around if you're experiencing a heightened craving for sugar, pay attention to that craving because my sense is that there's a deeper kind of sweetness that you're wanting right now. And that sweetness would begin with you. You with you, you turning towards yourself in sweetness with love, helping yourself experience sweetness by making time and space to do and to be in the ways that make you feel sweet. If there's something that you love to do, and you haven't done it for a couple of months, go do it. Okay, so it's my little aside for folks experiencing sugar cravings. I also want to say that this is an amazing time for you to be making long term investments in life sweetness. What does that mean? I'm not entirely sure but if you think into the next 5, 10, 20 years of your life, how could every day in these next several years get just a little bit sweeter? Not the sugar, not the refined sugar that you could eat, but sweeter in its essence. Sweeter because you are being sweet with you because you're being sweet with the sweetness in your life. 

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The last two weeks of Gemini season from June 5 through the 20 bring a lot of provocation into the atmosphere. There is intense energy during this time and I think that people might be feeling a lot of fluctuation. Chaos and opportunity often arise together. Breakdowns come right before breakthroughs for a lot of people. If you find yourself fluctuating a lot during this time, try and take it in stride.

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On June 10 we have the second eclipse of Gemini season. This is a solar eclipse and new moon in Gemini. This eclipse will be conjunct with Mercury retrograde. This is a time for you to really tune in with joy, with love, with vitality, with your heart, with sweetness, with childlike energy and if you have children, to really try and be connecting with them in a way that is authentic and supportive for them to be their full, beautiful brilliant selves. Around eclipses it's generally recommended to chill and not try and force anything. You want to be open to the energy that is around you, perceptive as you possibly can and going with the flow. Notice what is wanting to change and what is ready to change. 

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On June 14, there is a really important aspect occurring. This is a square between Saturn in Aquarius and Uranus in Taurus. This is a square that happens three times in 2021. The first time was in February, the second time is now in June, the third time will be in December. This is hallmark astrology for this year. This aspect will not happen again any time in your life and we're not going to get this aspect again. So it's really important that we're kind of working with the energy. That's why astrology is awesome. It helps us to act rather than react with influences that are coming up. The way that I'm reading this influence in your chart is that you are taking responsibility for yourself, for your own happiness, and for your own life, and therefore there are changes that you are making and that need to be made in your foundation. Your foundation could mean any or all of the following things. Your home, the place where you live, the place where you come from, the earth itself. How do you take up space? How do you hold space? What is the space that you're in? Do the ways that you take up space or exist in your home space, and that could mean on this planet, align with the kind of person that you want to be? If not, can you change them? Or what changes need to happen or what changes naturally are happening that maybe you don't want to resist and you want to move with? Second, family. Family can mean a lot of things: your blood family, your ancestors, your chosen family, people who helped raise you whether or not you're blood related to them, and then of course, the family of life on earth. You are interrelated. How are you in relationship? What are the relationships that are most influential for you? If you are participating in modes of relationship that keep you from being your vital authentic self, how can you shift those modes? It may mean that certain relationship structures need to change, change is okay. You can ask for boundaries, you can dissolve boundaries, you can ask for change, you can be accountable, you can ask for accountability. Things are wanting to change in terms of your relationship to home and family. Finally, this part of your chart speaks to personal power, it speaks to your positionality. Where do you come from? What kind of body do you inhabit? What are your privileges? What are your disadvantages? How do you work from those spaces to really take up the space that you are, that you hold inside of you? If you have perspective of a certain kind of identity - I mean, you do you have the perspective of your identity, which includes probably a lot of subtleties and nuances and idiosyncrasies and overlaps and intersections. How do you take up the space with integrity? How do you take up the space and really include yourself and include yourself in ways that are responsible to all of your relations and in relationship in ways that are responsible to you? These are big questions, they're not meant to be answered simply they're meant to be lived into and kind of wrestled with throughout the entire year.

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Okay, I think I'm gonna leave it there for now. I hope any or all of that is helpful for you, Aquarian friends. If you want more astrology from me, please check out your Year Ahead reading. I offer your 2021 reports for all 12 signs, these are hour and a half long readings that go over the major movements of this year with suggestions for working with the opportunities and the challenges. If you want more astrology regularly from you please become an extended content subscriber. You can subscribe by donation, and you will receive my extended content, my month ahead calendars, my worksheets for understanding astrology in relationship to your own chart. You'll also receive access to twice a month subscriber only workshops and meetups where we work together to embody the astrology, to make meaning out of it, and to apply it in our own charts. You can follow me on Instagram @embodiedastrology for regular astro updates. You can subscribe, rate and review on iTunes to help support this podcast and other people to find it. If you enjoy this work, please consider leaving a tip or becoming an extended subscriber. Your financial contributions sustain this work and the team that helps make it happen. Thank you so much for listening. I'm wishing you all the best in Gemini season and beyond. Bye for now.